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Real Bread Maker Week

...will return in May 2013! 

Want a delicious, all-natural, genuinely fresh local loaf of Real Bread?

Well you don't have to wait until the next Real Bread Maker Week to give some love to the Real Bread makers

  • On your high street - look for The Loaf Mark!
  • In the back of your kitchen cupboard
  • At the ends of your sleeves

NOW is the time to seize sandwich supremacy!

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What is Real Bread Maker Week?

It's the only national week exclusively dedicated to celebrating artificial-additive-free loaves and the local bakers who make 'em!

Whether your local Real Bread maker is the machine at the back of your kitchen cupboard, at a nearby bakery, or at the end of your sleeves, now is time to GET REAL!

Almost every household in Britain buys a loaf or more each week, and the majority of us eat some every single day.  The thing us, far too much of what we buy is not baked locally and often laced with either artificial additives or perhaps hidden processing aids, or both.

Get involved

Real Bread Maker Week is all about YOU supported YOUR local Real Bread Makers!

Here are three ways you can kick the industrial loaf habit:

More suggestions

How will YOU be helping people to celebrate Real Bread Maker Week this year?

Here are just a few ideas of offers you could make or activities that you could organise:

  • A discount on a Real Bread making class
  • A discount on bread making flour
  • A tour of your Real Bread bakery
  • Visiting a local school as part of our Lessons in Loaf scheme
  • A competition to win a class, baking equipment, flour...
  • A get together to share Real Bread tips and recipes, preferably using locally produced ingredients
  • Setting up a drop-off/pick-up point for unloved bread machines
  • Running a bread machine loaf picnic
  • Organising a Real Bread baking competition
  • Put a bread machine in a communal area for other people to borrow - e.g. student halls, block of flats, staff room or kitchen at work. 

Perhaps you could involve a community group such as your local:

  • WI group
  • Scouts or Guides
  • Work colleagues
  • School
  • Farmers' market
  • Country Market
  • Community shop
  • Sharing network
  • Slow Food group

For further inspiration, have a look at what people got up to during Real Bread Maker Week 2010 and 2011.

If you are planning an event, please add details to our events calendar NOW!

If you have a special offer, please email details to realbread [at] sustainweb.org and we'll publish them here.

Special offers

Please note that many offers ran from 7-13 May 2012, but please see below for details of each.

You can find details of more year-round benefits of joining the Real Bread Campaign here.

FREE copy of Bread Matters

Thanks to Bread Matters, everyone who joined the Campaign during Real Bread Maker Week (7-13 May) 2012 was eligible for a FREE signed copy of Campaign co-founder Andrew Whitley's book that first rallied the troops in the current fight for better bread in Britain.

Exclusive offers and events for Real Bread Campaign members

The Brook Bakery School, Somerset

brookbakeryschool.com

Cinnamon Square, Rickmansworth

www.cinnamonsquare.com

Marriage's

Offer ended 13 May 2012

www.marriagesmillers.co.uk

Clyston Mill, Exeter

Square Food Foundation, Bristol

Offer ended 13 May 2012

www.squarefoodfoundation.co.uk

Bread in Fife, Fife

Offer ended 13 May 2012

www.breadinfife.co.uk

River Cottage Cookery School, Axminster

Offer ends 31 May 2012

www.rivercottage.net

Leicester Born and Bread, Leicester

Offer ended 13 May 2012

www.leicesterbornandbread.co.uk

Lesley’s Kitchen, Ayrshire

Offer ended 13 May 2012

www.lesleyskitchen.com

Baker & Loaf, west London

www.bakerandloaf.com

Owen's Bread, East Sussex

www.popupcoop.co.uk

Barefoot Bakery, Lincolnshire

www.thebarefootbakery.co.uk

Shipton Mill

Offer ended 13 May 2012

www.shipton-mill.com

Open-to-all offers

As a small charity, we'd love you to support our work by joining us, but if that's not for you, here are some things we've arranged for non-members, 'cos we're nice like that...

Bread Matters

Offer 1:

  • A FREE place on a four-day Baking for Community course with Andrew Whitley 2-5 May. 
  • The one free place is reserved for someone who will use it to help start, or develop, a Community Supported Bakery.
  • To apply for this free place, please email Bread Matters to say how you plan to make the best use of what you learn. Find further information and contact details here.

Offer 2:

  • 50% discount on the 12 May Daily Bread one-day introduction to Real Bread baking for beginners and people who want to increase their confidence, knowledge and skills - and get going with the sourdough.
  • Quote 'Real Bread Maker Week' for a 50% discount.

www.breadmatters.com

Bakery Bits

Offer ended 13 May 2012

  • Buy from the site during the week 7-13 May and your name will go into a draw to win a La Cloche baking dome, worth £47.99

bakerybits.co.uk

Gilchesters

Offer ended 13 May 2012

  • A 15% discount on selected flours bought online during the week 7-13 May.
  • The discount code to use at gilchesters.com is Bread

www.gilchesters.com

Wychelm Bread School and Community Bakery

Offer ended 13 May 2012

  • Free loaves of Real Bread to 100 customers during the week
  • Contact the bakery for details of the giveaway

www.wychelmbreadschool.co.uk

Events

To find or add details of bakeries, mills and other groups' Real Bread Maker Week activities locally, visit our events calendar

They included:

  • The Cookery School (London W1) hosting a Real Bread baking class on 11 May
  • Bread Workshops (Suffolk and Norfolk) bread making class at Diss Rugby Club on 12 May
  • The School of Artisan Food (Nottinghamshire) running an introduction to artisan baking on 12 May and a wild yeast and sourdough class on 13 May

If you joined in the fun, please get along to the Real Bread Campaign page on facebook to share your stories.

You can also share your #realbread news and stories on twitter

National Mills Weekend

As the Real Bread Campaign champions all-natural local loaves, It's no coincidence that Real Bread Maker Week coincides with National Mills Weekend.

Whether you're baking at home for yourself, or baking Real Bread for other people in your local community, there are many benefits to seeking out a local traditional flour mill.  These include:

  • Getting delicious, nutritious, stoneground flour direct from the producer
  • Buying flour that has been produced by wind or water power - two genuinely sustainable and environmentally sound sources of energy
  • Supporting an enterprise that is owned and run by local people - and in some cases will be a co-operative and/or charitable institution
  • Helping to safeguard local heritage for future generations
  • A fun and educational family day out

National Mills Weekend is run by the Mills Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.  Many of the mills that are open to visitors are members of the Traditional Cornmillers Guild, and will be running activities to help you get the best out of making Real Bread with traditionally-milled stoneground flour.

www.nationalmillsweekend.co.uk

Bread machine exchange

You can share your Real Bread recipes, stories, tips, pictures, or event ideas in the  #realbread stream on twitter and on the  Real Bread Campaign facebook wall.

Want to get hold or rid of a bread machine?  Here are a few organisations that will help you to pass it on any time of the year:

EcoModo
EcoModo enables people to lend and borrow everyday objects, skills and spaces and already have a number of breadmakers for people to borrow and a member willing to teach others how to make Real Bread - and raise money for charity at the same time. Visit www.ecomodo.com

Freecycle
Freecycle helps people who have things they no longer need to give them away to people who do need them and in the process keeps many useful items from filling up our landfill sites. To request or offer a bread maker go to www.freecycle.org and join your local group.

Freegle
Freegle is an email list hosted on Yahoo! Groups that allows you to give stuff away when you need to get rid of it but don’t want to throw it in the bin. Or save something from landfill by asking for it; perhaps someone has just what you need that they were about to throw away. To see how you can pick up or pass on a bread machine, visit www.ilovefreegle.org

Let's All Share
To find bread machines being offered, simply type 'breadmakers' into the search bar and they will be displayed on a map so you can see the breadmaker nearest to you. If you want to give away or rent out your breadmaker, you just need to set the rules about renting or giving, delivery or collection as required and publish it to the breadmakers category.  www.letsallshare.com

ooffoo
On ooffoo you can reuse, recycle, swap, sell, give away, write & blog, vote, debate & discuss their latest hot topic, find recipes & useful eco tips and much more. To add a free classified ad for a machine you want to pass on, visit www.ooffoo.com

Streetbank
Streetbank is a site that helps you share and borrow things from your neighbours. Sign up with your name and postcode, add at least one item (like a bread machine), skill or recommendation and see all the items within one mile radius of your home. www.streetbank.com

If you would like to get your organisation involved in finding new homes for second-hand bread machines, please let us know.

Click here for some more ideas on how to pass it on.

Recipes

This is an opportunity for home bakers to share their recipes and tips with others around the country.

To start you off, here are a couple:  basic Real Bread for your breadmaker by Andrew Whitley and some new adventures in sourdough

If you have your own recipe, please add it to the #realbread stream on twitter or on the  Real Bread Campaign facebook wall. We're especially keen on hearing from anyone who's had success at making genuine sourdough in a bread machine.